Bobby Murphy

Scholarship Awarded:

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)

Robert "Bobby" Murphy, a doctoral student from Louisville, Kentucky, has received a government-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Bobby will use his fellowship to pursue research in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at UK.

NSF fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees. For the 2017 competition, NSF received over 13,000 applications and made 2,000 award offers.